Another week....

[jayene]

today all the other temps in my office were let go. (they knew it was coming). All I can think now is "and then there was one." I really don't know how much longer I'll have a job there, but the good news is, at least for temping, the market is picking up.
I've been on a jewelry spree this week. I'm tearing through all the new beads I just got, and may have to put in another order after christmas. Yesterday I mostly did inventory and pricing, but I did put together a nice Fancy Jasper and garnet set. I've got a couple new designs bouncing around in my head, I might even sit still long enough to string them.
I learned something a little scary today... I prefer sitting down and making jewelry, or one of my other project, above most other things. A good time for me is wire, beads, and string...I'd say I was a cheap date, but I know how much I have invested in the beads! Luckily Josh is ok with it. He did suggest I look into the JMA. Jewelry maker's anonymous. Sigh.
I have 2 shows this week though, friday at work and saturday at a methodist church, I think. Then there will be a weekend off and two more shows the next weekends. Hopefully I'll make money.
On another note I'm getting fascinated with kimono's. Costuming ADD I know. But I have some lovely cool scarlet cotten...^_^
If I can only get through the weekend....

Comments

Kimono

[wendyzski.livejournal.com]

i can highly recommend _Make Your Own Japanese Clothes_ by John Marshall. ISBN 0-87011-865-x

It has instructions for making your own kimono as well as hanten and haori jackets and a variety of traditional styles of tops and pants. Most are made entirely of rectangles - very easy to make. And they have a sheet where you take your measurements and stick them into the pattern for one that fits you exactly.

I JUST got it back after loaning it to somone - she kept it for 2 years, so I'm not letting it out of my sight for a while.

[jayene.livejournal.com]

Very cool! I've been looking at a few IRL and Was planning on trying the rip and sew methid a time or to to see if I can get the drape right....gotta love cheap fabric for experiments. ^_^

Kimono

[noxcat.livejournal.com]

There isn't much to Kimono - they're all made from rectangles. The fitting happens when they're put on and fastened with the obi. There's a cutting layout for one in Dorothy Burnham's Cut My Cote from the Royal Ontario Museum, and my friend put up some really easy to follow directions for making a complete outfit (hakama, kosode, uchikake) here http://www.raito.com/clothing.htm

He also had me ILL a book that has some really yummy pictures "Kosode: 16th-19th Century Textile from the Nomura Collection" (Kimono is the more modern name - kosode is the older one)